Quotes from Books

I feel bad about my neck.

The most important thing is to be able to take a joke.

Looking back, I see that I was never really young.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I realized that I had been hiding behind a façade for so long that I had forgotten who I was.

To be truly free, you must be willing to be vulnerable.

Living authentically is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Wealth is what you don't see.

Money is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or for bad.

The hardest financial skill is getting the goalposts to stop moving.

Your personal experiences make up maybe 20% of your financial life; the rest is how you think about money.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Heaven is for real. It's a place where you will never feel pain or sadness.

I saw Jesus and he was very beautiful.

You can be with your family in heaven, and they will be waiting for you.

God loves you and wants you to be with him in Heaven.

The deepest love comes from the deepest pain.

Faith is not about everything turning out okay; it's about being okay no matter how things turn out.

Sometimes, you have to lose everything to find what you truly need.

Sometimes, the most important things in a story are the things that are left unsaid.

You can’t ever know what’s really inside someone else’s mind.

Fear can be a powerful motivator, but it can also be a prison.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Time management is really a misnomer — the truth is that you must manage yourself.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

Listening is an art that requires attention over talent.

The quality of your life is determined by how you experience it.

If you can experience life without the limitations of the mind, joy is always within reach.

Inner Engineering is not about changing who you are; it's about discovering who you are.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us.

The only thing worse than being trapped in a life that you don't want is being trapped in a life that you do want.

We are all just trying to be good to each other in the dark.

What we want is not to be happy, but to be safe.

The ability to focus on a goal is the most important factor in achieving success.

Motivation is not just about what you want to achieve, but also about how you get there.

Productivity is not about doing more; it’s about doing what matters.

The first mountain is about achievement and success. The second mountain is about meaning and purpose.

You can’t find your way until you know where you want to go.

The journey to the second mountain is about making commitments to something larger than yourself.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Mistakes are a part of the creative process; they can lead to great breakthroughs.

Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.

I knew that I was dying, but I was also living.

The best way to confront death is to live fully.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

The true measure of our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

We are all broken by something; we have all hurt someone and have been hurt.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.

What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?

The weak are meat and the strong do eat.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The difference between successful people and everyone else is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Once you understand that habits can be changed, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them.

Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors.

The fragile is harmed by volatility; the robust is unaffected; the antifragile is improved by it.

If you want to be antifragile, you must seek stressors, challenges, and uncertainty.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.

Black Swans are the large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events that lie beyond the realm of normal expectations.

The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I want to be able to say that I did something.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The ocean is a great teacher, and he teaches us to be humble.

What we see is only a small part of what exists.